ROMPIN: About 400 parameters of data recording from the black box of the helicopter which crashed in Semenyih on April 4, killing six people including Rompin Member of Parliament Tan Sri Jamaluddin Jarjis, have to be analysed.
Deputy Transport Minister Datuk Abdul Aziz Kaprawi said the analysis was expected to be completed in one or two months.
“There are about 400 more parameters which have to be analysed and we are sending them to Paris, France, which is the country where the helicopter was built, to conduct a more in-depth analysis,” he told reporters after officiating a Road Safety Special Advocation Programme at the Rompin District level in Bandar Tun Razak, Keratong, about 127km from Kuala Rompin here yesterday.
The Dauphin helicopter is currently produced by the Airbus company, and was originally developed and produced by the French company, Aérospatiale which in the 1990s, merged with multinational company, Eurocopter.
Abdul Aziz said the interim report on the helicopter would be released in a year.
In the incident on April 4, Jamaluddin together with five others, died when the helicopter they were traveling in from Pekan, Pahang, to Kuala Lumpur, crashed in a rubber estate in Kampung Sungai Pening, Semenyih at 4.55pm.
The others who died in the crash were Captain Clifford William Fournier, the Principal Private Secretary to Prime Minister Datuk Azlin Alias, businessman Datuk Tan Huat Seang, Jamaluddin’S personal bodyguard, Razakan Seran and a woman known as Aidana Baizieva. — Bernama